Vice President of Affiliate Medical Affairs

Dr. Napolitano is Vice President of Affiliate Medical Affairs at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. He oversees the quality, safety and experiences delivered by Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital clinicians on affiliate campuses, working in close partnership with All Children’s Specialty Physicians and service line and institute leaders.

He also serves as medical director for the Johns Hopkins All Children’s LifeLine Transport team that services more than 1,000 critical care patients annually, chair of the Department of Pediatric Medicine, and interim neonatology division chief. He began as a neonatologist at All Children’s in 1988.

After receiving his medical degree from the University of Brussels, Dr. Napolitano completed his pediatric residency and neonatology fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia, where he was an attending neonatologist and assistant professor of pediatrics before joining All Children’s. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the sections of Perinatal Pediatrics and Transport Medicine. He has served as a member and past president of the Florida Society of Neonatology.

Dr. Napolitano's clinical research interests include the treatment of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn; he directed All Children's participation in the early multicenter trials of nitric oxide therapy for this condition. He has engaged in studies of nutrition in the premature infant and research on neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a constellation of symptoms in newborns exposed to narcotics in utero. He served on a Florida State Collaborative to develop guidelines for the management of infants with NAS.

As an advocate for family-centered care, Dr. Napolitano established a NICU Parent Advisory Committee at All Children's Hospital. He has served as a member or vice chair of numerous All Children’s staff committees.

Dr. Napolitano has been honored by the State of Florida EMS, the Florida Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Pinellas County and Tampa Bay March of Dimes.